This is a rough translation of a 9 page letter in German from OSA's Kurt
Weiland, another of Miscavige's criminal cronies. This letter is a scientology
classic in that it is a dead agent letter based on Hubbard's Policy Letter
called "How to handle black propaganda" which enumerates steps on how to
compile a DA pack. Needless to say, this letter is full of lies and is
symptomatic of Miscavige's panic level.

Bob Minton

Agency of the Interior
attn: Senator of the Interior
Johanniswall 4
20095 Hamburg

April 18, 2000

Subj: Robert Minton

Dear Mr. Senator,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

On April 6 your agency called a press conference with the
American citizen, Robert Minton, at which Minton was
present with his lifetime companion for the time being, Stacy
Brooks.

As you know, as a consequence of its predilection for dubious
"sources" - including and above all in matters of Scientology -
the Berlin State Office for the Protection of the Constitution
lost not only its good reputation, but ended up losing the
justification for its own existence.

With that background I implore you not to take the following
information lightly. Because it will clearly and distinctly show
that Robert Minton and Stacy Brooks are anything but
trustworthy.

Shortly before your agency put Robert Minton on display
before the Hamburg press, the well-known London Sunday
Times revealed an international money-laundering scandal
dealing with the [illegible] sum of 12 billion marks [approx $8
billion] out of Nigeria and in which Minton is apparently a key
figure.

Under the regime of the former military dictatorship in Nigeria,
he personally mismanaged several tens of millions of dollars
into his own pocket past a starving population that is among
the poorest in the world. Minton's role in this unprecedented
case of organized criminality is currently under investigation by
the newly elected democratic government of Nigeria.

The Time also reported that in the course of uncovering the
scandal, foreign bank accounts had already been frozen.
(enclosure 1)

Stacy Brooks, who accompanied Minton to Germany,
discredited herself before the eyes of the American public in
her characteristic crying. While she feigned tears and held
hands with the man who was her husband at the time and
made accusations about the Scientology Church on American
television that it was "interfering" in their marriage, at the same
time she was already the secret and well paid lover of Robert
Minton.

[illegible], Brooks and Minton lied to the American media
repeatedly about their connections until the U.S. TV program
"Dateline [illegible]" finally brought the truth to light nationwide
in December 1999.

The deciding factor here is not the extramarital relations as
such, on which basis Minton's family was finally destroyed. It
is more the unscrupulous lies which both told the media in their
attempt to slander the Scientology Church - until they had no
other choice but to admit to the truth.

This behavior is symptomatic [for them] and is part of a long
list of exposed and documented lies. Minton's fairy tale stories
for the Hamburg press were effortlessly [illegible] there. It is
simple to construct lies. A new one can be invented every day.
If journalists [illegible] and employees of the civil service do
not challenge or even fundamentally check the accuracy of
such statements, then they will rapidly turn into willing
mouthpieces for slanderers.

Robert Minton, moreover, comes up with another reason for
his activities against Scientology, depending upon the country
in which he happens to be. Such [illegible] contradictions are
not as directly relevant as are their roots.

When he was only 17 years old, Minton found himself in the
padded cell of a psychiatric institution. Since then he has left
his noteworthy and [illegible] track of violence throughout his
life and the lives of other people. To this day he finds himself in
psychiatric [illegible].

This tendency towards violence has been impressively
documented, a tendency which did not pause even for his two
ex-wives. Endeavors in the scope of a sort of "anger-

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Therapy" brought no change in his behavior. Relevant to the
preceding case is certainly the fact that he has twice been
arrested for physical attacks upon Scientologists. His last
violent attack led to a charge being placed by the presiding
state attorney's office. On this account, Minton must answer
before a court in the United States at the end of May.

He has constantly been threatening Scientologists with
violence, not only over the internet, but all over other public
[illegible], and in one case he even fired a shotgun over the
heads of members of the Scientology Church.

Minton leaves nothing untried in [illegible] this [illegible]. In
Hamburg, where he could feel certain that lines of his
slanderous statements would be questioned, he made the
bizarre claim that the Scientology Church was hoarding
weapons and was issuing rocket launchers to its members. But
the only person who has made an appearance with weapons is
Minton himself.

Naturally he also does not mention that he has never been a
member of the Church and has never encountered the church
policies which he pretends to know about.

The church institution which he was referring to lies directly
adjacent to a public golf course and is visited every Sunday
for "open house" by numerous people from the area and,
additionally, is used [illegible] and regularly by the local
residents. This use ranges from a sports event for the seniors
club to Christmas festivities for the local police station.
Numerous representatives of executive agencies at the local as
well as the national level have visited this church institution and
gotten a look at it. Not one of them went without praising the
Scientology Church for its contribution to and its inspiring role
in the formation of community life

All the Scientology Churches which Minton's imputations refer
to are established members of the community whose social
involvement has been recognized by agencies including the
California police. High police officials have had repeated
words of praise for the work of Scientologists in the areas of
education and in drug rehabilitation, and also for the fact that
the Church has collected thousands of dollars for charitable
purposes.

One example: on the occasion of his retirement after 28 years
of service, Captain Glenn Ackerman of the Los Angeles
Police Department wrote to the Scientology Church and
thanked them for "the enduring role which you have played in
realizing security concepts in Hollywood. Perhaps the most
significant was the continuing leading position of the Church in
the support of our various projects with the goal of improving
community life ... Your participation in our Neighborhood
Watch Programs and your untiring efforts to make us aware of
relevant problem areas for our activity have contributed
substantially to making Hollywood safer." (enclosure 2)

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Minton's claims are not only absurd when one takes the facts
into account of the long-term [illegible] of the Scientology
Church for the interests of executive agencies, they fall into the
grotesque when one takes into account the professed
teachings of the Church as to the aspects of criminality and
prosecution and considers the consequent worldwide support
of the Scientology Church for Criminon, one of the most
successful rehabilitation programs for convicted felons, which
is based upon the works of Scientology Founder L. Ron
Hubbard.

If you believe you have to use "sources" like Robert Minton
and Stacy Brooks, then you should also know what the price
for all that would be. The Berlin State Office for the Protection
of the Constitution has already shamelessly disgraced itself and
is in the process of self-dissolution. The Baden-Wuerttemberg
State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) has
even made international headlines with its use of "reliable
sources" in Switzerland and, even if not deliberately, has
shown the entire world that, for LfV Stuttgart, the boundary
between Constitutional protection and Constitutional
transgression is just as flexible as the one between Germany
and Switzerland.

The one responsible for bringing these "witnesses" to the
Hamburg Interior Agency is Mrs. Ursula Caberta of the
so-called "Work Group on Scientology." Due to a lack of
"witnesses" from Germany, she thinks she can justify the
existence of her office by importing the Mintons and Brooks
of this world at taxpayer expense.

This is not the first time that foreigners pretending to be
informants have sought refuge in Mrs. Caberta, including one
whose evident untrustworthiness and criminal antecedents
were deliberately withheld from the German public.

By way of example, in October 1997, she used taxpayers'
money to fly in a "source" who had fled to Canada to escape
an arrest warrant in the United States. The arrest warrant has
been and still is valid; the person to whom the warrant applies
had simply "slipped out the back door." He was and is under a
restraining order for violating a court order regarding his
anti-Scientology activities and is under summons for contempt
of court. As a result he is confronted with a court order to pay
more than one million marks to the Scientology Church. As
soon as he sets foot on California soil, he will be arrested.

Without a second thought, Caberta introduced this man to the
German media as a "reliable source" regarding Scientology -
just like she is allegedly trying again with Minton and Brooks.

Mrs. Caberta, of course, does not mention such facts,
presumably not within the agency, either. It is only proper if I,
in this regard, am less reserved and communicate to you yet
several more more details about Minton and Brooks as
follows:

In September 1998, for example, he attacked a Scientologist
in Boston. The police arrested him for using a dangerous
weapon to commit bodily harm. (enclosure 3)

In October 1999, he attacked a Scientologist in front of our
Church in Clearwater, Florida. The authorities charged him
with bodily injury and issued an instruction to forcefully
suggest to Minton that he cease his persecution and attacks in
the future against Scientologists. (enclosure 4)

Minton had already fired a shotgun over the heads of
members of the Scientology Church. (He justified this act to
the media by saying that he had shot because he "had not been
himself." He said he had "wrongly" been accused of having an
affair with Stacy Brooks. As was later revealed in a national
television broadcast, Minton and Brooks were lying the whole
time and were very probably having a secret affair. (enclosure
5)

Minton has repeatedly threatened Scientologists with force. In
one internet post in August 1998, he threatened to murder any
Scientologist who should happen by his property. In cynical
contemptuousness for human life, he encouraged members of
the Church to make such a visit, because he, as he wrote "was
getting a lot of target practice ... with various weapons."
(enclosure 6)

On another occasion he threatened Scientologists with an axe
and threw stones at a car which he presumed were
Scientologists.

He physically assaulted a female Scientologist who had
demonstrated against his attacks.

On his own web site on the internet upon which he proudly
presents himself is a picture of him swinging a Samurai sword
dipped in blood-red paint. The photograph is under the
words, "Bob Minton's Plan for all Scientologists." (enclosure
7)

It is a matter of record that fits of anger and psychiatric
treatment is a dangerous combination as the rising trend of
senseless violent crimes in the USA during and after
psychiatric treatment extensively proves. This connection has
also been observed by the courts. They have instructed
Minton that he may no longer approach Scientologists or
Scientology Churches.

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Financing Copyright Violations

Robert Minton's explanations about his motivation for
financing people who are "against" the Scientology Church do
not correspond to reality. It is more of a matter that he
deliberately finances people who have been charged and
convicted of commercial crimes who have lost before the
courts.

This [illegible] conduct of subsidizing illegal and, in any
respect, suspicious activity clearly shows his concept of the
law and what really matters to him.

For example, he financed a certain Arnaldo Lerma, who was
legally prohibited in April 1997 by an American district court
from violating the copyrights of the Scientology Church.
Minton gave Lerma $60,000 AFTER he had lost in court.
Acceptance would suggest that Lerma, with this money,
would be in the position to [illegible] his illegal violations and
to [illegible] the court judgement.

Minton also gave copyright violator Grady Ward over
$40,000. His violations against copyright were so serious that
a federal court set a punitive settlement of $3 million. Ward is
under a legally valid restraining order and is making monthly
payments to the Church for the rest of his life. (enclosure 9).
He is now working for Minton, for which he receives a sum of
$2,500 per month.

Minton also transferred $750,000 to an association by the
name of FACTNet, which was taken to court for copyright
violations of Scientology materials. Only when FACTNet
could no longer escape conviction and confronted by heavy
sanctions by the court did the accused agree to cease further
violations of the Church's copyrights and to pay a million
dollars in damages should there be a repeat occurrence.

Minton also financed the paid witness, Jesse Prince, whose
untrustworthiness I have already described for you and the
other Offices for Constitutional Protection on November 12,
1999.

A particularly significant example of Minton's dealing with the
truth is, moreover, the "McPherson Case" which he sold to the
media at the Hamburg press conference. Minton suppressed
what is surely the most important detail of this court
proceeding: namely, that the presiding court doctor recently
changed her findings on the case, based on a subsequent
review of the scientific, medical evidence by renowned experts
and came to the conclusion that the death of Mrs. McPherson
could be traced back to an embolism which had been
loosened by an accident and which had lodged in one of her
lungs, as a result. (enclosure 10)

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Minton was well aware of this complete alteration of the basis
of the process when he spoke about it in Hamburg.

He would not have mentioned it because he has, in the
meantime, invested $850,000 in a civil suit against the Church
in the McPherson matter, and the now contradictory [illegible]
the basis - financed with this money in any case - of a
campaign of libel [illegible] the Church.

Stacy Brooks

At the press conference of April 6, Stacy Brooks also
introduced her equally fantastic claims regarding her Church
membership and how she said she had been treated during that
time.

Indeed, she has already admitted that the statements circulated
by her are untrue, but she refuses to stop spreading them as
long as the church does not pay "for her silence." (enclosure
11)

Brooks also receives money for "witness testimony" against
Scientology in court - until she finally was convicted in a
cross-examination of being a perjurer. Since that time she can
no longer be found on the witness stand, for that she uses
press conferences. But then only when she can be sure that her
imputations will not be questioned. A condition which she made
[illegible] in Hamburg.

A completely characteristic event: in Stacy Brooks' testimony
before an American court the former California Superior Court
Judge David Eagleton noticed her total lack of competency in
the area of organized church structure and commented that "she
did not know the difference between a 'director' and an
'executive officer'." In fact, that is right, but that does not
stop her from bringing up untrue accusations before an
uncritical press in Hamburg.

The inability of Stacy Brooks to grasp basic corporate duties
in her own position followed her during the entire period she
was on the official staff of the Church.

She had to give up her office as minister of the Church because
she violated fundamental ethical obligations associated with
it, as she did later in her work with "Freedom," the human
rights magazine of the Scientology Church. There she secretly
attempted to [illegible] the publication for purposes of profit
and to "mask out [?]" the/her connection to the Church.

Brooks claims to possess "knowledge" about David Miscavige, the
Chairman of the Board of the so-called Religious Technology
Center. The fact is that for a few months in the early 80s

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she was employed in the same organization as he. However, she
was dismissed for incompetence.

Brooks continues to assert that she had participated in the
efforts of the Church to obtain tax exemption for the
Scientology Churches in the United States. Actually, she left
the Church in 1989, two years before the extensive review of
the American IRS tax agency had even begun, and four years
before it had been consummated. This review, and not the
fantastic [illegible] of a Stacy Brooks, at the end of 1993
finally led to the granting of tax exemption for all American
Scientology Churches and associated organizations.

So much for Stacy Brooks.

The close ranks between [illegible, "husband"?] Minton and
representatives of German ministries makes a mockery of all
democratic values. Minton has earned his money in unscrupulous
business which can hardly be outdone in its racist and humanly
contemptuous dimensions. What kind of person does it take to
make a fortune from the poverty and suffering of a country like
Nigeria? Anyone who sells such people as "credible" no longer
knows what he is doing. In that way or similarly have the
presiding representatives of government agencies and ministries
lost any appearance of international human rights and
fundamental [illegible] state neutrality in religious issues.

I would like to bid you, in all urgency, to not simply ignore
the facts detailed in my letter. You will understand that a
continued alliance of your or other German authorities with
Robert Minton and Stacy Brooks will be regarded by the
Scientology Church to the degree that it would be if if it were
an [illegible] campaign motivated only by evil against the
German Scientology Church.

You can be assured that the Church will take the steps
necessary in the scope of legal and publishing limits in order
to maintain the rights of its congregation members in the
Federal Republic [of Germany].

In closing, I would like to shortly address the
anti-constitutional "Work Group on Scientology" in your agency
and its director, Ursula Caberta - a "human rights violator,"
as the Scientology Church Hamburg may say based on the judgment
of the Hamburg Superior Court.

In the past we have more than once pointed out the situation
that Mrs. Caberta and your office waste more than a million
marks a year of the taxpayers' money.

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I am asking you: for what? In order to violate basic rights of
the Constitution and in order to bring harm to German citizens
and their families?

The day will come when the activities of Mrs. Caberta will be
seen for what they are: an extension of the Inquisition which
hunts down people and destroys their existence and has
brought shame not only to Hamburg, but to all of Germany.

When one additionally takes into consideration that she issues
con men like Robert Minton the [illegible] seal of the Hamburg
Interior Agency, and not just one time, that shows all the much
more that Ursula Caberta is not needed.

Therefore we ask that Mrs. Caberta be immediately relieved
of her duties.

Cordially,

/signature/
Kurt Weiland
Member of the Board of Directors
Church of Scientology International

Distribution:
State Offices for the Protection of the Constitution
State Interior Ministers and Senators
Federal Minister of the Interior
Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution

It is a not too infrequent part of the job of a PRO {Public Relations
Officer} to encounter hostile contacts. To handle such, one has to be fast
and effective at dead agenting.

Every successful PRO knows how to dead agent and wins.
As the tech on dead agenting and handling hostile contacts is scattered in
various P/Ls and write-ups, it is issued collectively now as policy for
use. Learn these techniques well. Use them with success!

Passages taken directly from L. Ron Hubbard's writings or from transcripts
of his verbal briefings are in italics [indented] {but not in this webbed
version. Jeta}. Other passages are from D/G PRO WW write-ups reproduced by
courtesy of the Guardian's Office.

These materials relate directly to

PR Series 23 The Press Book

PR Series 22 Press Conferences, Preparation for

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It is my specific intention that by the use of professional PR tactics any
opposition be not only dulled but permanently eradicated. This takes data
and planning before positive action can occur. (LRH) {L. Ron Hubbard, guru
and founder of the criminal Scientology and Dianetics psycho-business}
Never let entheta pass unhandled. Prevention is better than cure. Handle
fast, handle with live communication, handle with documentation, use PR
technology including tone scale evaluation. Liaise with your senior and the
other divisions/bureaux. Maintain ethics presence and see the matter
through to a completion including the discrediting of the attacker.
Experience has shown that defence is only effective when one sorties or
attacks.

The errors we have made have been:

Defending only.

Defending on Scientology ground.

Being reasonable and assigning mild motives to the enemy.

Failing to attack early and hard.

Undervaluing the broad social value of Scientology.

Individuating from other similar organizations.

Not learning enemy tactics and using and bettering them.

Failing to heavily contest for public opinion and public media.

Failing to identify the enemy early and hit him hard. (LRH)

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The technique of proving utterances false is called "DEAD AGENTING".
It's in the first book of Chinese espionage. When the enemy agent gives
false data, those who believed him but now find it false kill him - or at
least cease to believe him.

So the PR slang for it is "Dead Agenting."

This consists of disproving utterly the false statement with documents or
demonstration or display.

One has to have a kit (a collection of documents) or the ability to
demonstrate or something to display.

STATEMENT: "I've been told you are in trouble with Income Tax people."

REBUTTAL: "Here's a document of fully paid taxes and a letter of
commendation from the tax authorities." Displays same.
Result? Whoever told him that is now dead with him as an accurate informer.
The best way to dead agent is when the person makes some disprovable
statement, find WHO to fix his mind on it and then produce the rebuttal.

You only challenge statements you can prove are false and in any
conversation let the rest slide.

EVERY FRIEND, EVERY OPINION LEADER, EVERY STAFF MEMBER YOU HAVE SHOULD BE
SUPPLIED WITH A DEAD AGENT PACK CONTAINING PROOFS AGAINST COMMON RUMORS
(AND BROCHURES AND COACHING TO FILL THE VACUUM). (LRH)

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In defending against hostile PR, once more it is in the R that counts. Sun
Tzu in his book about warfare gives several types of agent. One of these is
the "dead agent" because he tells lies to the enemy and when they find out
they will kill him.

Hostile (or counter-PR) is usually the usual fabric of lies.
If one finds out the lies being told and documents just one as being false,
he has made counter-PR recoil. His hearer will never believe him again.
He's 'dead'.

In the war between psychiatric hostile PR and the truth of Scientology, the
"dead agent" caper has a field day. Psychiatric PR has been lying for 20
years. Documented, the fact of these lies are lies is killing off
psychiatry.

You understand, it's not one PR's word against another's. It's one PR's
documents against the other PR's lies! That is correct defensive PR. (LRH)

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The quality of the documentation is a major factor. The PRO should have the
right to chit and demand better quality documentation if it's not up to
standard. One should be very inventive and very creative in the
presentation of his pack. As the false reports on us are generally repeated
over and over and over again in different ways one can have in stock, so to
speak, false report correction packs and booklets. One of these could be
the Background and Ceremonies of the Church, a WW publication. There are
various bona fide publications for different countries. There is
Scientology 20th Century Religion, there is the publication Viewpoint from
the US and we now have Omar Garrison's Hidden Story of Scientology. Then
there are things like the quote from the Encyclopedia Britannica Year Book,
etc.

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This is correct procedure:

Spot who is attacking us.

Start investigating them promptly for FELONIES or worse using our own
professionals, not outside agencies.

Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them.
Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to
the press.

(LRH)

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Also press releases should always contain some factor of endurance. This
gives the public the idea that we endure. Examples:

"For many years now we have stated..."

"We have stood up to such attacks many times and are still surviving
and expanding."

"Since 1950 we have..."

"Eighteen years ago..."

ALWAYS ATTACK in a press release. Never Defend or Deny. (LRH)

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Reporters are a kiss of death unless one really is an expert PR man
himself. Reporters have to be handled and well. If truly friendly, they
have to be wooed. If not they have to be handled.

The routine is:

Whisper of a bad story

Get a lawyer

Threaten suit

Totally discredit using the technique of the Dead Agent caper which MUST be
understood in full.

It consists of photostats of good stories and authentic documents that
state the truth and thus wreck any lies and the liar. "Dead agent" means
when they find out the guy lied (proven by documents) he's dead. The kit of
the PRO MUST contain a full set of such documents, adequate to cancel out
any lies told.

And it must be fast. It must come to an immediate confrontation. (LRH)

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The actual handling is very swift. You can make the offending person the
butt of your wit, handle seriously, take him over the hills and far away
conversationally, but it has to be swift and smooth with one person in
control.

As soon as you get some entheta about us, you immediately jump on the
person and ask who else has he been saying that to, getting all the names.
Ask for the person's credentials, where he comes from, who sent him - give
him a hard time of it. (LRH)

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We endeavor to hit from as many directions as possible. For example, a
reporter was conducting a one-man crusade against Scientology in his
newspaper. PR handled by having formal complaints made on the conduct of
the reporter to his newspaper, the Press Council and the police with full
documentation as to the lies he told and actions which he had taken,
including threats and attempted blackmail by him. A full submission was
presented giving six or seven pounds weight of PR data from the Church of
Scientology on itself, its social reforms, its view on psychiatry, etc.
This data was indexed and bound so that it looked something of value. The
pack was left with a high official and other officials were informed that
full submissions had been left there and if they needed information he
would be able to supply it. The Press Council ended up investigating the
reporter and the stomach has gone out of his crusade.

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False reports are corrected by true facts. You do whatever you have to do
to get the true facts communicated and published. Documentation is the
biggest aid in doing this. Communicating corrections obtained from other
media helps build ethics presence and makes for a careful press and media.

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When an entheta story with false reports has been published it must be
handled fast by telephone call, by personal visit, and always by letter
confirming. The PR needs documentation which refutes and he needs it
available to show or to give to the media. It is an obliteration tactic.
For example, a newspaper publishes its third entheta article. Legal plays a
hard line and PR plays the part of the peacemaker until a retraction and
legal settlement is made. Documentation is then sent to all press, the
Press Council and journalists and individual reporters. The documentation
has a plea for reform and clean up of ethical standards. The result: the
reporter in question will no longer be on staff.

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Every correction you obtain comes as something you can use. It is "beans";
there is an exchange now because you can use that in your prevention.
A common error in the actual tech of false report correction is contained
in repeating the original entheta in our published correction of it. By
that we give the enemy two cracks. This is very easily avoided by simply
doing an item fact correction sheet and making it clear that it is not for
publication, accompanying it with the thing which is for publication or
promising the thing for publication to follow.

Time is always of the essence. The longer an entheta piece is permitted to
persist the more difficult the correction becomes, the more damage is done
by it and the more likely it is to be quoted by another.

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Research and experience has shown that there are various factors which
contribute to successfully obtaining equal space in the media. The major
factors are:

Speed of handling.

Duplication of the nature of the media or person(s) one is approaching.

Personal, live communication.

Full documentation and correction of facts in previous article.

Correct tone level evaluation and handling of media terminals.

Previous theta articles on Scientology.

Intention.

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Yes, one says, but how about the violent opposition? How about that fellow?
Well, he's a problem. But he is an opinion leader.
One has to decide how much of an opinion leader he is.
If you don't handle a would-be opinion leader who is anti but who is NOT an
opinion leader, people get cross.
The decision here stems from
Is he talking about actual abuses? or
Is he just lying?

In either case one has certain courses of action. If the abuses are actual,
work to remedy them. If he is just lying, lay out the truth.
If he really isn't an opinion leader, ignore him.

But one can only interfere with him or remove him if many, many are getting
cross because you don't. But that's a risky business.

As a rule, only that dissident person should be removed who is speaking in
your name and on your lines and using your power to do you down. And then
he can only be removed off your lines as you are under no obligation to
finance or empower your own opposition. That's suicide.

He is not an opinion leader but a traitor for he owes his power to you.
Usually anti-opinion leaders are made by neglect.

PR-wise one has to catch them early and handle. (LRH)

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One propagandizes the enemy population or one's own or neutrals.
In popular interpretation it is a parade of lies or half-truths or
exaggerations.

PR and advertising technology and mass news media are employed as well as
word-of-mouth and posters.

The trouble with it is that it can often be disproven, discrediting the
utterers of it.

It may serve the moment but after a war it leaves a very bad taste.
If one is engaging on a campaign of this nature, its success depends on
sticking to the truth and being able to document it.

The entire black propaganda campaign conducted for 21 years against
Scientology began to fold up in its 18th year because never at any time did
its instigators (a) have any factual adverse data or (b) tell the truth.
The Scientology movement continued if only by heroic means and much
sacrifice.

But at last nobody of any note believed the propaganda.
The attackers pulled in on themselves a counterattack based on penetrating
horrible documented truth.

It required intelligence-like tactics to discover who it was exactly.
The "dead agent caper" was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of
counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they
were ___" is countered by a document showing "they were not". This causes
the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be
discarded. (LRH)

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The technique is:

A hidden source injects lies and derogatory data into public view.

Since it is a hidden source, it requires an intelligence approach
to successfully end it.
In the meanwhile the "dead agent caper" is the best tool to counter it.

(LRH)

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A good policy when faced with a Black Propaganda campaign is to defend as
best you can (dead agent and legal restraints) while you find out
(intelligence) WHO is doing it. Then, confrontation can occur. Finding and
suing false whos can make things much more involved. (LRH)

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When one is not fighting a battle against Black Propaganda, public
relations is easy.

One hires a reporter who gets to work thinking up ideas and turning out
releases. That's why reporters are often thought of as Public Relations
people which they are not.

In the face of a Black Propaganda Campaign, such releases are twisted,
refused and that is the end of it.

There is far more to the art than this.

These are some of the rules that apply:

Fill the vacuum of omitted data with factual data.

Prove all false utterances heard are lies.

Discredit every rumor encountered.

Handle the interest level with any utterance.

Carefully study out the scene until the exact source is located.
Use the knowledge of source to impede or destroy the source of Black
Propaganda by non-criminal means.

Continue to fill the vacuum of no data with good data using any channels
available.

Each one of these points could well take a book. But understanding them and
using one's initiative one can fill in a lot of the tech himself.
The variations of each one are endless. (LRH)

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If there will be a long-term threat, you are to immediately evaluate and
originate a black PR campaign to destroy the person's repute and to
discredit them so thoroughly that they will be ostracized. (LRH)

>Minton also gave copyright violator Grady Ward over
>$40,000. His violations against copyright were so serious that
>a federal court set a punitive settlement of $3 million. Ward is
>under a legally valid restraining order and is making monthly
>payments to the Church for the rest of his life. (enclosure 9).
>He is now working for Minton, for which he receives a sum of
>$2,500 per month.

Saying I am a "copyright violator" is a lie; in fact in an Order
dated March 1, 2000, United States District Judge Jeremy Fogel
specifically stated that "[I]t would be false to state that Ward
was convicted of copyright infringement in the present matter."

See the signed order for yourself:

www.gradyward.com --> legal archive --> document 63

Also it is a lie to say that I work for "Minton." I have consulted
for the Lisa McPherson Trust where Robert S. Minton has no
executive capacity there at all.

It would also be true to say that the criminal cult of scientology
*lost* their trade secret claim outright and lost their bid for
summary judgment in the copyright aspect in my case.

The criminal cult as admitted to spending more that $2.5 million
dollars in attacking me in exchange for $200 a month payments.

They also admitted their agent stole photographs of my children
from their grandmother and lied to my wife's bank to obtain
confidential banking information.